United States v. Melendez

ORDER

Police, staking out a suspected drug house in Waukegan, Illinois, watched as cars arrived and then promptly departed after a man from the house had momentarily entered. Alex Melendez was driving one of those cars. Police officers followed him when he left the house, and after they stopped him, Melendez admitted that he had a brick of cocaine under his seat and produced a kilogram of the drug. The officers arrested Melendez, and he confessed to buying the same amount of cocaine nine times before from the same supplier. The supplier later was apprehended and corroborated that he had sold a…